Claude says:Jonathan Tyler's Dallas crew landed at Atlantic via a SXSW showcase and cut this debut with producer Jay Joyce in Nashville — Southern rock with enough blues grit to win them a slot opening for ZZ Top. The guitars churn through swampy grooves and barroom swagger, Tyler's rasp pushing through songs that split the difference between Crowes worship and Texas roadhouse honky-tonk. You grabbed it four years after release in early 2014 and burned through it in a single month — "Bright Energy," "Devil's Basement," and "Gypsy Woman" all hit, but the whole thing came and went fast.